Following the Government reshuffle there have been big changes to where the science portfolio sits in government. The Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has been merged with the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) to create a new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS). Lord Mandelson is now the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Lord Drayson remains the Minister of State responsible for Science & Innovation, now situated in DBIS.

More information about the newly formed DBIS is available at the link below.

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